Etymograph

English

Pantelleria

Pantelleria comes from Sicilian Pantiddirìa, and goes back to Arabic بِنْتُ الرِّياح ‘daugther of the winds’.

  1. Arabicc. 500–presentبِنْتُ الرِّياحbintu ar-riyāḥ‘daugther of the winds’
  2. SicilianmodernPantiddirìa
  3. Italianc. 1300–presentPantelleria
  4. Englishtodaysame form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Arabicc. 500–presentبِنْتُ الرِّياحbintu ar-riyāḥ‘daugther of the winds’
  2. SicilianmodernPantiddirìa
  3. Italianc. 1300–presentPantelleria
  4. Englishtodaysame form

The story

Borrowed from Italian Pantelleria, from Sicilian Pantiddirìa, from Arabic بِنْتُ الرِّياح (bintu ar-riyāḥ, “daugther of the winds”), perhaps through a dialectal Arabic form with a genitive particle (equivalent to a theoretical Maltese *bint tar-rjieħ, *bint tal-irjieħ).

Every English word from Arabic بِنْتُ الرِّياح

Today it means

name An inhabited volcanic island belonging to the province of Trapani, Sicily, between Italy and Tunisia.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Arabic بِنْتُ الرِّياح / Pantelleria

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